Binu and the Great Wall of China

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Su Tong. Binu and the Great Wall of China

BINU AND. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

CONTENTS

Preface

Crying

Frog

Peach Village

Bluegrass Ravine

The People Market

Hundred Springs Terrace

Deer-boys

The Drawbridge

The Deer King’s Grave

Gravedigging

The River Bend

Fragrant Forest Station

Seven-Li Cave

Five-Grain City

Tear Brew

Assassin

City Gate

King

Binu

The North

Thirteen-Li Shop

Great Swallow Mountain

The Great Wall

Also by Su Tong, available in English

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Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human. The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include: Chinua Achebe, Alai, Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, AS Byatt, Michel Faber, David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Klas Östergren, Victor Pelevin, Ali Smith, Donna Tartt, Su Tong, Dubravka Ugresic, Salley Vickers and Jeanette Winterson.

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The Leng family woman glared at her. ‘You’re a girl who doesn’t know what’s good for her,’ she said angrily. ‘Has your soul fled just because your man is not at home? When a man leaves, his hands go with him, so do his feet, even that appendage between his legs is gone. So what good is a pair of straw sandals?’

Her face burning, Binu ran out of the grove onto the road, but even then she kept her head down, still searching for Qiliang’s missing sandal, which hid from the sunlight, out of sight. Downhearted, Binu tramped up and down the public road leading out of the mulberry grove every day, always searching.

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